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say it: REEZ-ling
riesling is a noun meaning "white grape grown in Europe and California". It is pronounced /ˈɹizlɪŋ/ — REEZ-ling. It carries 2 recorded senses.
white grape grown in Europe and California
fragrant dry or sweet white wine from the Rhine valley or a similar wine from California
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for riesling come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.